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An Excellent Reason To Eat Berries For Breakfast

Good morning, sunshines! Do you like berries? I love them. As a kid, I spent a lot of time picking (and eating!) them in our garden, then toting my little pail to my mom so she could make into jam. And now a new study has come out with research that shows we might have a very, very good reason to love berries even more...

Eating berries regularly might help reduce your risk for developing Parkinson's disease, according to new research by the American Academy of Neurology.

The study followed the diets of more than 120,000 people for about 20 years. Researchers found that those men and women who ate the most anthocyanins--types of flavonoids, antioxidant components that are found in foods such as berries and apples--were 22% less likely to develop Parkinson's.

"If confirmed, flavonoids may be a natural and healthy way to reduce your risk of developing Parkinson's disease," says study author Xiang Gao, MD, PhD, with the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.